Use & care guide

Information You Need To Know
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About microwave cooking
Arrange food carefully. Place thickest areas
towards outside of dish.
• Watch cooking time. Cook for the shortest
amount of time indicated and add more as
needed. Food severely overcooked can smoke
or ignite.
• Cover foods while cooking. Check recipe or
cookbook for suggestions: paper towels, wax
paper, microwave plastic wrap or a lid. Covers
prevent spattering and help foods to cook evenly.
• Shield with small flat pieces of aluminum foil any
thin areas of meat or poultry to prevent over-
cooking before dense, thick areas are cooked
thoroughly.
• Stir foods from outside to center of dish once or
twice during cooking, if possible.
• Turn foods over once during microwaving to
speed cooking of such foods as chicken and
hamburgers. Large items like roasts must be
turned over at least once.
Rearrange foods such as meatballs halfway
through cooking both from top to bottom and
from the center of the dish to the outside.
• Add standing time. Remove food from oven
and stir, if possible. Cover for standing time
which allows the food to finish cooking without
overcooking.
• Check for doneness. Look for signs indicating
that cooking temperatures have been reached.
• Doneness signs include:
- Food steams throughout, not just at edge.
- Center bottom of dish is very hot to the touch.
- Poultry thigh joints move easily.
- Meat and poultry show no pinkness.
- Fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
About food
Eggs, • Puncture egg yolks before cooking to prevent • Cook eggs in shells.
sausages, "explosion". • Reheat wholeeggs.
nuts, seeds,
• Pierce skins of potatoes, apples, squash, hot
fruits & • Dry nuts or seeds in shells.
vegetables dogs and sausages so that steam escapes.
Popcorn Popcorn Tray (NoidicWa[e ®) popcorn in regular brown bags
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when, Exceed maximum time on popcorn
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Baby food
General
• Transfer baby food to small dish and heat
carefully, stirring often. Check temperature
before serving.
• Put nipples on bottles after heating and shake
thoroughly. "Wrist" test before feeding.
• Heat disposable bottles.
• Heat bottles with nipples on.
• Heat baby food in original jars.
• Cut baked goods with filling after heating to • Heat or cook in closed glass jars or air
release steam and avoid burns.
• Stir liquids briskly beforeand after heating to
avoid "eru ptio n".
- Use deep bowl, when cooking liquids or
cereals, to prevent boilovers.
tight containers.
• Can in the microwave as harmful
bacteria may not be destroyed.
• Dee p fat fry.
• Drywood, gourds, herbs orwet papers.